César Cui
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Russian composer and army officer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, César Antonovich Cui was a Russian composer and music critic, member of the Belyayev circle and The Five – a group of composers combined by the idea of creating a specifically Russian type of music. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army he rose to the rank of Engineer-General , taught fortifications in Russian military academies and wrote a number of monographs on the subject.
